Explores the people and technology associated with space exploration, discussing the history of space travel, early rocket pioneers, Apollo missions to the moon, space stations, and the space shuttle.
the radical theories of Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo and Newton
Miller, Ron
This title shows how a group of European scientists, in the span of roughly one hundred and fifty years (early 1500s to the mid-1600s), and working through direct observation, overturned the centuries-old accepted view of a geocentric universe.
A brief biography of Hellenistic ruler of Egypt, Cleopatra, her relationship with Julius Caesar and Mark Antony, her life, and determination to restore Egypt to its former glory and greatness.
Traces the history of the space race and the technology behind the use of robot explorers to examine the surface of Mars and other places in the solar system where humans have not yet been able to travel.